CD4+CD8+TCRlow thymocytes express low levels of glucocorticoid receptors while being sensitive to glucocorticoid-induced apoptosis

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 2293-2301

  Jan Wiegers, G ^a,b   Knoflach, Michael ^a,c   Böck, Günther ^a,c   Niederegger, Harald ^a,c   Dietrich, Hermann ^a   Falus, Andras ^a   Boyd, Richard ^a   Wick, Georg ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Glucocorticoid receptor; Selection; T cell development; Thymus

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SELECTION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL SURFACE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAINING; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0034850519     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200108)31:8<2293::AID-IMMU2293>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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